Sarahah App Quietly Uploads Your Phone Contacts

Recently, we have seen anonymity app Sarahah has become the trending
stuff on the web. It took the internet by storm when its popularity
increased exponentially. According to Zachary Julian, Sarahah is
collecting the private information from its users.

Sarahah App Quietly Uploads Your Phone Contacts

We
must admit that Anonymity is one of the internet’s exceptional
offerings. There are few android apps available on Google Play Store
that lets users hide the identity online, while still getting to do and
say what they want.

Recently, we have
seen anonymity app Sarahah has become the trending stuff on the web. It
took the internet by storm when its popularity increased exponentially.
Almost everyone from teenagers to adults are using Sarahah app to
receive “anonymous” feedback from their friends and relatives.

Now the reports from The Intercept
throws light on another part of the Sarahah app. According to Zachary
Julian, Sarahah is collecting the private information from its users.

According to Zachary Julian, as soon as a
user launch Sarahah app for the first time, it instantly uploads all
the phone numbers and email addresses to the server. Well, if you
remember Sarahah ask users for the permission to grant access to
contacts, but it doesn’t disclose the upload act.

Another
thing is that the app doesn’t even utilize the uploaded data. Julian
discovered the issue when he first installed Sarahah app on his Samsung
Galaxy S5 using a BURP Suite.

Sarahah app performs the same thing in iOS devices also. Well, it’s
worth to note that if a user doesn’t use the app for some time, it
shares the contacts again. The creator of this app, Zain al-Abidin
Tawfiq claims that the functionality will be removed in the future
update and he also said that the feature was intended for “find your
friends” feature which is something that doesn’t exist at the moment.